Lucy Ellmann quotes
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“Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.”
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“The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.”
-- Lucy EllmannSource : Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black
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“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”
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“I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.”
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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